I found interesting the problems that Jordan-Zachary described of ‘doing Intersectionality.’ Part of the problem lies in the difficulty of describing complex, subtle social phenomena with any precision. I think it is difficult to communicate those elusive ideas–and I think our language lacks the vocabulary to name these specific phenomena–because of our culture’s masculine features that do not treasure close attentiveness to psychic phenomena. Julia regrets her failure to compartmentalize perfectly. But why compartmentalize? Her personal experiences are very legitimately in the domain of psychology and literature (and beyond), and probably have legitimate explaining power in those fields, as well as for research published in political science journals. The increasing relevance of psychology and literature in narrating intersectional conflicts strengthens the veracity of human low-information reasoning, of our subconscious, emotional, implicit convictions formed experientially without mountains of data. The importance of narrative is also consistent with eroding the vaguely masculine mistrust of heuristics and context and all that is not rarefied and methodical.
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